frogs in ice melt

[asakiyume]

Wakanomori and I went walking with a friend at the Quabbin Reservoir, and we came to a little pool that was alive with frogs, swimming around in the melting water above the ice still covering the pool. Amazing! Aren't they cold blooded? But they didn't seem to mind the icewater--they swam powerful breaststrokes this way and that in the three inches of water above the ice.

Wakanomori took this video. You have to turn the sound up very high in order to hear them, probably. Unfortunately, no closeups of the athletic swimmers, but imagine them with long thin arms and legs and graceful webbed feet and hands, swimming here and there, and singing.

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Comments

[asakiyume]

They sound like an assembly of kids waiting for a play to begin.

[osprey_archer]

Oh, yes! Or that moment when the orchestra starts tuning up - the instruments have that same almost talking to each other feel.